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Wikiquote is a multilingual online open-content compendium of quotations. All content but copyrighted quotations is released under the GFDL and CC-BY-SA in the same manner as other Wikimedia Foundation projects.

The beginning

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It began with a post by Fonzy on June 27, 2003.

a proposed idea: Wikiquotionary an Encyclopedia of Quotes. The temp page can be found here – fonzy.

It started as quote.wikipedia.org on July 10, 2003 and later got its own domain, wikiquote.org on August 25, 2003.

Development

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Wikiquote had quotations with over 2,500 articles in six languages in June 2004, one year after its first proposal under the domain wikiquote.org. Some language-speakers other than English requested their own subdomain and on July 17, they were created, starting Wikiquotes in languages like German, French, Italian and Polish.

The Wikiquote project is expanding slowly but steadily. At the end of September there were about 15 Wikiquotes, both large and small. On December 1, there were 24 Wikiquote projects. There were almost 6,500 articles in total in December 2004. At the end of May 2005 the total number of articles reached 14,000. It included nearly 30,000 articles in over 30 languages in February 2006, over 60,000 articles in 87 languages in May 2007 and over 80,000 articles in 89 languages in June 2008.

Since the last update of June 2008, the number of languages has remained stable, while the number of articles has doubled. As of 10 May 2014, about eleven years after its creation, the Wikiquote project now includes over 168,000 articles in 89 languages. Twenty-eight language versions have more than 1,000 articles. Fifty-six language versions have 100 or more articles.

The largest Wikiquotes are Italian and English, with over 48,000 and 46,000 articles respectively. Third is Polish Wikiquote, with more than 24,000 articles.

Challenge

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Sometimes the Wikiquote project faces troubles and challenges. One of the most remarkable challenges was copyright issues on the French Wikiquote. To avoid problems, on March 2006 the Foundation decided to take it down, erase all its material and relaunch it. For details, see the announcement from the Foundation.

However, devoted editors rescued the situation. They settled their charter and policies, and French Wikiquote was relaunched on December 4, 2006.

List of Wikiquotes

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See this page for complete statistics.

Table transcluded from Wikiquote/Table.

These statistics are updated several times a day. You might need to purge the cache to see the latest numbers.
No Language Wiki Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
1 English en 67,786 239,089 3,957,620 15 3,352,865 1,156 0
2 Italian it 55,710 210,301 1,421,019 8 107,721 168 262
3 Polish pl 31,822 56,455 645,390 9 61,650 89 1
4 Russian ru 18,015 45,754 445,708 5 113,627 102 0
5 Czech cs 15,909 20,530 168,373 2 20,777 36 1
6 Estonian et 13,698 23,524 135,615 2 5,639 15 2
7 Ukrainian uk 12,364 42,352 160,922 5 21,188 30 0
8 Portuguese pt 12,073 36,612 226,126 4 44,183 62 1
9 Hebrew he 11,448 21,825 238,474 3 27,488 50 513
10 French fr 10,943 39,209 462,176 6 83,342 74 0
11 Persian fa 9,558 33,994 192,519 1 33,421 34 37
12 Spanish es 8,839 33,211 503,621 3 96,769 55 0
13 German de 7,932 20,563 524,004 3 69,673 20 16
14 Serbian sr 6,075 13,456 68,065 5 6,631 16 1
15 Turkish tr 5,874 34,863 239,280 3 37,707 42 1
16 Esperanto eo 5,501 11,509 53,742 2 5,720 7 1
17 Azerbaijani az 5,501 12,598 206,635 5 8,700 9 0
18 Slovak sk 4,539 7,467 101,267 2 7,957 7 2
19 Catalan ca 4,256 14,212 146,223 3 16,100 8 4
20 Bosnian bs 4,157 8,112 62,383 1 8,989 9 271
21 Chinese zh 4,007 16,529 154,622 5 56,181 59 0
22 Arabic ar 3,781 56,823 263,089 4 34,524 50 0
23 Indonesian id 3,639 10,526 55,696 5 21,139 29 5
24 Finnish fi 3,420 7,128 100,420 3 10,082 20 2
25 Lithuanian lt 2,984 6,404 84,331 2 5,362 7 2
26 Slovenian sl 2,979 7,410 42,951 2 5,903 5 0
27 Bangla bn 2,896 13,525 84,082 2 5,995 26 0
28 Sundanese su 2,449 4,058 16,635 1 2,233 4 6
29 Armenian hy 2,378 9,245 179,315 1 6,296 6 99
30 Bulgarian bg 2,307 11,382 91,974 3 11,632 12 5
31 Croatian hr 2,183 4,214 33,616 2 6,265 10 1
32 Igbo ig 2,146 11,918 33,217 1 1,464 47 0
33 Greek el 1,921 4,142 38,484 1 9,487 6 2
34 Uzbek uz 1,919 9,565 31,657 5 2,954 7 2
35 Norwegian Nynorsk nn 1,755 4,117 19,276 2 3,317 3 2
36 Limburgish li 1,591 3,256 7,400 2 2,695 7 0
37 Swedish sv 1,550 4,063 37,275 2 13,697 8 1
38 Vietnamese vi 1,526 5,970 63,144 3 14,709 13 1
39 Banjar bjn 1,439 3,441 10,759 3 813 6 0
40 Hungarian hu 1,372 5,149 56,974 3 15,885 7 54
41 Assamese as 1,345 3,414 27,327 1 1,210 6 0
42 Dutch nl 1,306 6,018 94,953 3 17,043 9 1
43 Japanese ja 1,182 5,003 42,583 3 23,258 20 2
44 Korean ko 1,121 4,299 34,719 2 7,216 10 4
45 Yakut sah 1,100 1,801 8,610 1 1,126 4 0
46 Latin la 1,015 2,353 14,887 1 4,043 4 1
47 Tamil ta 984 3,990 38,536 1 4,823 4 8
48 Hindi hi 935 6,763 33,115 1 5,511 13 0
49 Telugu te 884 4,952 26,553 1 3,205 5 1
50 Gun guw 812 1,372 10,092 3 773 6 0
51 Romanian ro 645 3,671 24,137 2 6,931 10 1
52 Thai th 634 8,307 57,736 3 6,427 8 0
53 Urdu ur 614 3,609 15,059 3 3,031 11 2
54 Galician gl 556 2,962 22,339 1 3,625 4 0
55 Tagalog tl 512 4,418 32,018 1 792 7 0
56 Gujarati gu 511 3,186 18,760 1 2,864 3 0
57 Georgian ka 504 5,002 56,217 1 5,435 12 22
58 Belarusian be 492 2,178 14,023 1 4,856 7 0
59 Kannada kn 380 2,285 15,551 2 2,385 4 0
60 Norwegian no 375 3,109 28,439 1 5,851 6 3
61 Welsh cy 371 1,407 8,635 1 2,935 3 0
62 Nigerian Pidgin pcm 363 591 7,559 4 260 6 0
63 Malayalam ml 335 3,707 26,453 3 5,695 22 0
64 Albanian sq 317 3,175 25,568 1 3,120 3 2
65 Basque eu 271 1,301 12,288 1 3,066 6 0
66 Kurdish ku 253 1,159 12,057 1 4,223 4 0
67 Malay ms 236 1,517 7,259 2 590 9 0
68 Danish da 232 2,361 21,047 3 10,179 4 1
69 Central Bikol bcl 159 2,385 20,413 1 916 7 0
70 Sanskrit sa 139 4,814 18,439 1 2,759 3 0
71 Icelandic is 134 1,285 12,810 1 2,775 3 1
72 Gorontalo gor 125 1,651 15,853 1 512 6 0
73 Breton br 50 920 5,531 1 2,386 4 0
74 Marathi mr 44 923 8,957 1 2,575 4 1
75 Afrikaans af 35 1,309 10,750 1 3,373 4 0
76 Minangkabau min 2 1,678 3,933 1 100 13 0
77 Kyrgyz ky 1 508 4,221 1 2,218 5 0
Totals Content pages All pages Edits Admins Users Active users Files
All active Wikiquotes 379,216 1,233,884 12,201,506 197 4,518,867 2,580 1,345

The Alemannic, Bavarian and Rhine Franconian Wikipedias have a namespace dedicated to quotations (als:Spruch:Start, bar:Spruch:Start, pfl:Spruch:Start) rather than using a standalone Wikiquote project.

Milestones

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Recommended article-count milestones are 100, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k increments to 50k, 10k increments to 100k, 25k increments to 250k, 50k increments to 500k, and 100k increments to 1000k.

Reporting to Wikimedia News is also recommended.

Past milestones can be found in the archives.

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An Alemannisch Wikiquote has been created as separate namespace within Alemannisch Wikipedia: Alemannischi Spruchsammlig (Wikiquote).

New Wikiquote

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If you want to launch a Wikiquote project in your favorite language, you can request it, filling some requirements. See Requests for new languages for further information.

Project-wide communications

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Most of language projects of Wikiquote have its discussion place on their wikis. If it is hard for you to find it, try visiting "Talk:Main Page" on each wiki.

The global Wikiquote community utilizes some communication channels.

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Wikiquote coordination

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History

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Essays

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